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The majority of western societies recognise no more than two sexes. People are assigned at birth either a male or female sex. Some infants receive operations to order their bodies within the two-sex system. If someone wants to live in a different sex to the one assigned to them and receive medical or psychological support, then they must convince the supposed „experts“ that they suffer from a so-called „Gender Identity Disorder“. „Gender Identity Disorders“ have been listed as psychological illnesses in the World Health Organisation’s catalogue of diseases since the 1980’s. Transgender people have been through this classification pathologised and psychiatrised. In order to change the one’s civil status, that is, to change the sex in the births register and on the birth certificate, the Transsexual Act states that the applicant must be sterilised.(mehr…)